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<div class="x_elementToProof"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">A gentle reminder that the University will be officially closed during the week of December 26 -
December 30 and will resume normal operations on January 2, 2023. Please note that the Sponsored Research Office team will be off during the break week for a hard-earned time off.</span></div>
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<div class="x_elementToProof"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">If you anticipate having any needs during the period December 26 - 30, please notify our office no
later than December 16, 2022 by sending an email to egrgrant@cenrtal.uh.edu.</span></div>
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<div class="x_elementToProof"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">We will continue to monitor emails during the break sent to egrgrant@central.uh.edu and will respond
to critical and urgent matters to the extent possible given the university closure. For all other emails to our team during break week, they will respond as soon as possible when we return to work in 2023.</span></div>
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<div class="x_elementToProof"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">We wish you and yours a restful time and renewed energies for future sponsored research activities
in 2023.</span></div>
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<div class="x_elementToProof"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Hanadi Rifai, PhD, PE, Fellow ASCE</span></div>
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